Jack at 6 Months

• You like to eat paper (e.g. magazines, catalogs, etc...) and you get angry if we pull it away from you because you are not supposed to be eating it.

• You are really trying to get up into a crawling position...and you have, for about a millisecond.

• You have eaten (in this order) rice cereal, squash, green beans, peas, and applesauce and you have not protested any of them...this contributes to your chubbiness.

• You still do not have any teeth, but I swear they are coming soon.

• You are quickly growing out of your infant car seat, and just about everything else.

• You love to blow raspberries.

• You have gotten sick for the first time and had your first fever (103.3)...apparently due to an ear infection. You have received your first taste of antibiotics...and you seem to like it.

• Those antibiotics gave you diarrhea, which has been absolutely wonderful for mommy and daddy (I say sarcastically).

• You are 19.5 pounds. Up two pounds from your checkup in early June. We only found out due to the after hours visit to the doctor's office for your high fever. You keep getting bigger and bigger and the only assumption that I can make is that you will be 850 pounds by the time you are 20.
  

It Was Inevitable

So,

The little guy got sick for the first time yesterday. He was a little bit grumpy on Sunday and then a bit more grumpy yesterday. And Jack is not a grumpy boy. He's usually very mellow. My sister, his "nanny", said that he had been pulling at his ears a little bit, but when we got home, he wasn't doing that. We took his temperature and it was 103.3. We called after hours care and they said to bring him in, so we took the first non regular check up visit to the doctor's office. We thought we might dodge this until Jack went back into a daycare center, but not so. Looks like he has the beginnings of an ear infection (one of his ears apparently much worse than the other). Bummer. They gave him a shot of antibiotic and sent us home with some and we gave him some infant Tylenol. At first, when we tried to put him to bed, he was screaming, crying and just not having it. He wouldn't calm down until I picked him up. I know somethings wrong when he's like this because my baby is a sleeper and usually has no problem going down. Well, after a while of him not going to sleep, we decided to put a couple of pillows under his mattress to raise it a little (as I read on the internet this may help with some babies). Well, he was either very confused by it or it worked because he fell asleep after that. I had to go in a couple of times to give him more infant Tylenol and he fussed a couple of other times, but for the most part, not so bad. At the beginning of the night, I thought I wouldn't get any sleep, but he did well. He had no other symptoms, which is good, and this morning his temperature went down to 99.1. So hopefully with the antibiotics, he will get better quickly. It's so very sad to see him in pain. I don't like it at all.

I'm so Behind the Times

So, I'm sure a lot of folks already know about this web site, Delicious, where you can bookmark all of your favorite web sites and blogs. You will have to excuse me for my lack of Internet social and bookmarking web site knowledge. I wish I would have known about this before. I bookmark on all of my different computers (work, home, husband's laptop) and so one computer may not have a favorite web site that I saved to another, which is quite annoying. On Delicious you can store all of your bookmarks in one place and access them from any computer. It's brilliant! I have already started taking my all over the place bookmarks and adding them to my account. This is definitely a helpful tool.